A new "Star Wars" trailer surfaces, the Miami Dolphins won, and the Tortuga Music Festival lineup was announced. Here's what's buzzing around social media today:
1. Star Wars
As the official “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”...

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia will meet Tuesday for their final scheduled one-on-one televised debate before the runoff election, following previous events that have grown contentious as the candidates try to land blows...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's challenger blasted the former White House chief of staff Thursday, accusing him of neglecting the city's neighborhoods and saying he's facing an unprecedented runoff election because voters are hungry for a leader who...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia are disagreeing over whether "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' museum should be located along the city's lakefront. Emanuel and Garcia are meeting Thursday for...

"They paved paradise, put up a parking lot," goes the folksy Joni Mitchell tune.
The great irony is that a litigious group of local preservationists is waging a legal battle to protect parking lots ... from an art museum.
Not to mention,...

A lawsuit challenging plans for the Lucas museum along Chicago's lakefront can proceed, a federal judge ruled Thursday, leaving legal hurdles in place if the selected site remains between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.
Friends of the Parks filed a...

UPDATED: The Academy Awards nominations are ridiculed year after year, but the voting is not a quota system.
So the controversy over the lack of diversity in acting nominees this year is fascinating. One critic on Friday morning carped that the...

Proposals to use roughly 20 acres of parkland in a Barack Obama presidential library drew hundreds of people Tuesday night to a South Side meeting, where passions flared among local residents and parkland preservationists.
Community leaders and residents...

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson
Filmmaker and Ariel Investments president
The attention really should be focused on federal judge John Darrah, who is presiding over the case that will decide the fate of the proposed lakefront location for the Lucas...

The Force is with moviegoers.
"Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" is the most anticipated movie of 2015, according to a Fandango survey.
The nation's largest movie ticket company said Tuesday that the upcoming franchise blockbuster...

The hubbub over hack-attacked Sony's release of "The Interview" was too big, too serious, too far-reaching to qualify for the Alewife Awards. Since 1996 these prizes, named after the stinky fish that used to wash up regularly on Chicago's...

Don Bacigalupi is going from helping one billionaire debut an art museum to another.Billionaire "Star Wars" creator George Lucas said Monday he has chosen Bacigalupi, president of billionaire Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American...

A millionaire — an iconoclastic, private collection — a plan for a museum in a city park.
Sound familiar? It should.
It is not only George Lucas' proposal for a museum on Chicago's lakefront, but also one that is old hat for the city.
From its early...

On social media, readers responded quickly — and, often, negatively — to the design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art unveiled Monday by Chinese architect Ma Yansong.
Here are edited versions of their comments, comparing the design to other buildings...